I love this movie so much

Really Surprised!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

R J Cutler's camera follows her into the industry's biggest names, and they positively cower before her or so we are lead to believe, as at the end of the day and sadly its a controlled doc about a dreary woman who sees fashion as a business and has been allowed to have a voice with the power of this magazine , director R J Cutler is a great filmmaker, and I feel that his creation was amazing but after seeing Varon Bonicos's - A Man's Story - an underrated and sadly unknown documentary film about black UK tailor and m men's guru designer Ozwald Boateng , I now retrospectively crave the reality of this woman's world not just her day job, yes its fashion, but who is AW? In my opinion Cutler obviously started shooting with Andre Leon Tally who sold the idea that AW would have a say in the production , she allows the camera in her life and answer's Cutler's questions, but sadly there is nothing of any emotion she never cracks her reserve, while the warm and emotional sidekick Coddington has her talent thwarted at every turn, and quickly becomes the heart of this film. It's like we need a part 2 about AW without the September "Issues" .RR

The documentary itself was great in many ways- the story-telling, film, interviews and insights about the nature of the relationships between each person involved with the production of the magazine issue. I was most struck by Anna W...walking from place to place, person to person with a constant 'puss' on her face. Always ready to dish out demeaning and cutting remarks. The first shot of the film was a surprise to me, I was not aware of Anna before this film, and when I heard this woman speak her ideas, I immediately thought this person is totally clueless about her class and about the distorted view of the world she had. As the film went on, it became noticeable that the majority of the people she interacts with are white people, rich white people. I also observed the sheer amount of power she has.This is not feminism folks, this is a woman who assumed the role of her past male predecessor, and combined them with her own seeming delusions of being royalty- the Folie of this delusion is that *everyone* helps make it happen by kissing her ass:they defer, they submit. This woman is exactly what is wrong with how people use their power. Her use of power appears to be based in supporting exclusivity, inequality and exploitation. To see her complete clueless-ness about people who live outside of her vacuum of sycophantic/terrified underlings. I felt turned off completely by this documentary- the entitlement, the implied nepotism (wants daughter in the industry), the seriousness given to the issue of fashion and the denial of the 'real' world outside of the fashion bubble. This doc to me, exposed a superficial world that is characterized by some of the ugliest uses of power, amazing disrespect and dis-ingenuity.

Fabulous color, Anna Wintour exclaims, as, we too, watch an Oscar De la Renta huge dress pass by. It is the moment in the film I most vividly recall, because it is such nuggets of experience and aesthetic appreciation it communicates, first in the figure of Anna Wintour with its English, military restraint (but what ethos I dare say she personifies and is let to seep through) - no, correct me on this; it is reserve rather than restraint. And amiable, for that.Then, as delicious as Quixote and Sancho were, we have Ms. Coddington play the more eccentric part, or counterpart if you will, and at the same time more down to earth. Here we have a unique occasion to grasp two individuals at work together for more than twenty years: that's some kind of artistic collaboration, a specific kind of marriage.And it is the hard work, the unassuming presence (watch how Mrs Wintour behaves toward her daughter) and the right amount of confession (my brothers, she - confides? admits? complains? - says, find what I do amusing - hesitating here if she is to say something more) that win us over. The film begins clumsily, and is somewhat weighed down by the similarity of the premises and some of the names with the ones appearing in the still recent "The Devil Wears Prada", but then gains its own peculiar charm. I liked my acquaintance with Mrs Wintour; she is enigmatic, but not inhuman. Her hardworking aesthetic focus, discarding all secondary, irrelevant excellence, is all I want to know. And I would definitely go for a beer with Ms Coddington; she seems the right bad girl to go out with a night in the town. And this too, was something I liked: it showed that she was not someone who could not live without fashion, and thank God for such so highly ranked people! I am not sure for Wintour though; Suzy Menkes, for example, gives one the impression that she cannot live without fashion, though at a certain sadistic price one is afraid. The same goes for Anna Piaggi - minus the sadism, of course. But Wintour? She has an elusive quality that makes this film a film to rediscover.

I think this documentary did a superb job with showing us what it's like to get a fashion magazine together. I loved watching how they choose the clothes, who really makes the decisions for the final cut of the magazine each month. I think that it's very much like a real version of the movie, "The Devil Wears Prada." I would also like to point out that they do touch on something pretty deep for Anna Wintour. Which I thought was good to bring into the film. I think it had direction and it will make you either love or hate fashion. Im my opinion, anyone who enjoys fashion and the reality of what it brings, will adore this film!